In 1986, Louis Malle set out to investigate the ever-widening range of immigrant experience in America. Interviewing a variety of newcomers in middle- and working-class communities from coast to coast, Malle paints a generous, humane portrait of their individual struggles.
Louis Malle
France,
1986
16 mm, DVD
Michelangelo Antonioni invented a new film grammar with this masterwork.
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy,
1960
35 mm, 16 mm, Blu-ray, DVD
In the last days of World War II, a Japanese platoon sustains morale through the Burma campaign by singing traditional songs, accompanied by the delicate harp-playing of Private Mizushima (Shoji Yasui).
Kon Ichikawa
Japan,
1956
DCP, 16 mm, DVD
Lodge Kerrigan’s raw, ravaging _Clean, Shaven_ is a headfirst dive into the mindscape of a schizophrenic as he tries to track down his daughter after he is released from an institution.
Lodge Kerrigan
United States,
1994
35 mm, 16 mm, DVD
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Wry and tender, Jirí Menzel's Academy Award-winning _Closely Watched Trains_ is a masterpiece of human observation.
Jiří Menzel
Czechoslovakia,
1966
16 mm, DVD
An intensely felt film that is one of Bergman’s most striking formal experiments, Cries and Whispers (which won an Oscar for the extraordinary color photography of Sven Nykvist) is a powerful depiction of human behavior in the face of death.
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden,
1972
DCP, 35 mm, 16 mm, DVD
Grave and witty by turns, this drama develops into a probing study of the psychology of desire. Susanne (Eva Dahlbeck), head of a modeling agency, takes her protégée Doris (Harriet Andersson) to a fashion show in Gothenburg, where Susanne makes contact with a former lover, and Doris finds herself pursued by a married dignitary (Gunnar Björnstrand).
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden,
1955
DCP, 16 mm
In this powerful early noir from the great Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune bursts onto the screen as a volatile, tubercular criminal who strikes up an unlikely relationship with Takashi Shimura's jaded physician.
Akira Kurosawa
Japan,
1948
35 mm, 16 mm
Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy stars Ingrid Bergman in her most sensual role as a beautiful, but impoverished, Polish princess who drives men of all stations to fits of desperate love.
Jean Renoir
France,
1956
35 mm, 16 mm, DVD
A milestone of the Czech New Wave, Milos Forman’s first color film, _The Firemen’s Ball_ (_Horí, má panenko_), is both a dazzling comedy and a provocative political satire that chronicles a firemen’s ball where nothing goes right.
Miloš Forman
Czechoslovakia,
1967
DCP, 35 mm, 16 mm, DVD
French Cancan, Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge, is a Technicolor tour de force starring Jean Gabin as a wily impresario juggling the love of two beautiful women in nineteenth-century Paris.
Jean Renoir
France,
1955
16 mm, DVD
In 1979, Louis Malle traveled into the heart of Minnesota to capture the everyday lives of the men and women in a prosperous farming community. Six years later, during Ronald Reagan’s second term, he returned to find drastic economic decline.
Louis Malle
United States,
1985
16 mm, DVD
Set to the music of Antonio Vivaldi, Jean Renoir’s ravishing, sumptuous tribute to the theater involves a viceroy who receives an exquisite golden coach and gives it to the tempestuous star of a touring commedia dell’arte company (the vivacious Anna Magnani).
Jean Renoir
France,
1953
35 mm, 16 mm, DVD
One of Bergman’s most satisfying marital comedies, A Lesson in Love stars the droll and sparkling duo of Eva Dahlbeck and Gunnar Björnstrand as a couple deep into their married years and seeking fresh pastures.
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden,
1954
DCP, 35 mm, 16 mm
In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding’s legendary novel about the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center.
Peter Brook
United Kingdom,
1963
DCP, 16 mm, Blu-ray, DVD
Ingmar Bergman's The Magician (Ansiktet) is an engaging, brilliantly conceived tale of deceit from one of cinema’s premier illusionists, a diabolically clever battle of wits that’s both frightening and funny.
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden,
1958
DCP, 35 mm, 16 mm, Blu-ray, DVD
Saul J. Turell's Academy Award-winning documentary short _Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist_, narrated by Sidney Poitier, traces his career through his activism and his socially charged performances of his signature song, "Ol' Man River."
Saul J. Turell
United States,
1979
16 mm, DVD
Sacha Guitry plays four roles in this whirlwind of pageantry investigating the history of seven pearls, four of which end up on the crown of England and three of which go missing. The Pearls of the Crown rockets through four centuries of European history with imaginative, winking irreverence.
Sacha Guitry
France,
1937
16 mm, DVD
A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice Rashomon is widely considered one of the greatest films ever made.
Akira Kurosawa
Japan,
1950
DCP, 35 mm, 16 mm, Blu-ray, DVD
Considered one of the greatest films ever made, The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu), by Jean Renoir, is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners.
Jean Renoir
France,
1939
DCP, 35 mm, 16 mm, Blu-ray, DVD
One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, SEVEN SAMURAI tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
Akira Kurosawa
Japan,
1954
DCP, 35 mm, 16 mm, Blu-ray, DVD
Much studied, imitated, even parodied, but never outdone, Bergman’s stunning allegory of man’s search for meaning was one of the benchmark foreign imports of America’s 1950s art house heyday, pushing cinema’s boundaries and ushering in a new era of moviegoing.
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden,
1957
DCP, 35 mm, 16 mm, Blu-ray, DVD
Regarded as one of the most sexually provocative films of its day, Ingmar Bergman’s _The Silence_ follows two sisters as they travel by train with Anna’s young son to a foreign country seemingly on the brink of war.
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden,
1963
DCP, 35 mm, 16 mm, DVD
Widely regarded as the greatest Spanish film of the 1970s, Victor Erice’s _The Spirit of the Beehive_ is a visually arresting, bewitching portrait of a child’s haunted inner life.
Víctor Erice
Spain,
1973
35 mm, 16 mm, DVD
Federico Fellini’s wife Giulietta Masina plays Gelsomina, a naive girl sold into the employ of a brutal strongman in a traveling circus, in this poetic fable of love and cruelty, winner of the 1956 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
Federico Fellini
Italy,
1954
DCP, 16 mm, Blu-ray, DVD
Inspired by the earthy eroticism of Harriet Andersson, in the first of her many roles for him, Ingmar Bergman had a major international breakthrough with this sensual and ultimately ravaging tale of young love.
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden,
1953
DCP, 35 mm, 16 mm, Blu-ray, DVD
A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood, directed by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan.
Akira Kurosawa
Japan,
1957
35 mm, 16 mm, Blu-ray, DVD
Winner of the 1962 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Ingmar Bergman's _Through a Glass Darkly_ presents an unflinching vision of a family’s near disintegration and a tortured psyche further taunted by God’s intangible presence.
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden,
1961
DCP, 35 mm, 16 mm, DVD
Aided by the marvelous, impressionist-styled images of cinematographer Nestor Almendros and a swooning score by Georges Delerue, François Truffaut transforms his second adaptation of a novel by Henri-Pierre Roché (author of Jules and Jim) into an overwhelming sensory experience.
François Truffaut
France,
1971
35 mm, 16 mm
By the time he made Ugetsu, Kenji Mizoguchi was already an elder statesman of Japanese cinema, fiercely revered by Akira Kurosawa and other directors of a younger generation.
Kenji Mizoguchi
Japan,
1953
DCP, 35 mm, 16 mm, Blu-ray, DVD
Novice nun Viridiana does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism. Luis Buñuel’s irreverent vision of life as a beggar’s banquet is regarded by many as his masterpiece.
Luis Buñuel
Spain,
1961
35 mm, 16 mm, DVD
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to cope in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg.
Nicolas Roeg
United Kingdom,
1971
DCP, 35 mm, 16 mm, Blu-ray, DVD
Traveling to accept an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg—masterfully played by veteran director Victor Sjöström—is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and make peace with the inevitability of his approaching death.
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden,
1957
DCP, 35 mm, 16 mm, Blu-ray, DVD